The
Team:The Bills have been trying
to get rid of Tyrod Taylor almost since they first put him in the starting
lineup (even though he just led them to the Playoffs;). "It’s about moving the offense and that’s what I’ve got to look
at," Bills HC McDermott said. "Get a better feel from the offensive coaches of what happened, why it happened. That’s what you
do." With two 1st in this this Draft, they have a shot at a top rated
QB in this Draft.

The
Player: Rudolph is an ultra
productive QB in a scary college offense. Scary meaning that QBs usually
don't translate from the Air Raids offenses that he played in. He is
considered a great athlete for a QB. Some question his arm, but I think he
has an NFL arm. He is a guy who going to need some time behind the scene
to learn the complexities of an NFL offense, and the defenses designed to
stop them.

He has
gotten too much hype at OK ST, and has had to try and quash some it
himself. ”I think Barry Sanders did a lot for the university and obviously won a Heisman Trophy so I think he’ll always be the best from Oklahoma
State," Rudolph said. "It takes a lot around you to get something like that done. I’ve been blessed with a lot of weapons to pass the ball to and it has been
fun." He has handled the pressure well.

It is really
so much more about the mental aspects of the game than the physical for
QBs. "There were three or four decisions he made out there that were really good
decisions," OK ST HC Gundy said. "In some of our read concepts, where he has three things to do, they gave him a little bit of a unique look a few times, and he did the right thing every time and resulted in big
plays." They have to know so much information about their offense, players,
and the particular play they are running.
Then read the defense correctly, and know where to go. "He knew it front and
back," Gundy said. "He knew every category. He knew what we should be doing and why."
He seems to have the mental part of the game.

But he does
have some issues. "He’s got good size," an exec said.
"But his arm strength is lacking. And he’s inconsistent with his accuracy."
He does throw a beautiful deep ball.
As a spread QB, I like him more on Day Two. "Not as good as the media wants everyone to
believe," a scout said. "He’s a Day Three guy. His accuracy isn’t as good as the numbers show.
His receivers make a lot of tough catches for him. Arm strength is adequate, not tops. What’s the difference between him and Bryce Petty?"
This is why drafting an NFL QB is the hardest thing to do in the NFL.

The
Reason:After
what they did to Peterson, he might be done as a developmental guy. "I own the decision.
And as I said yesterday, I don't regret the decision," McDermott
said. "I do regret the result, and there's other hands also in the
result. You go back and you learn from it. I learn from it as a head coach, and I expect all to learn from and we grow and we move forward."
But the consequences of that decision might force them to Draft Rudolph
here.

The
Team: Rams have a young QB. They need to help him every way they
can. It never hurts to draft a young OT, and hope he can be a stalwart
for years.

The
Player:Williams
is a top two or three OLs in this Draft. "He brings such an
X-factor to the O-line because he’s so elite," Texas QB Sam
Ehlinger said. "He also brings a nastiness that really helps our
O-line excel as a unit." He plays mean on the field.

There
are some good Tackles in this year Draft. "As you can see, when we
have Connor Williams, that makes a difference in the run game," UT
HC Tom Herman said. "You’ve got a guy that was a 1st-team
All-American, I believe last year, as a sophomore coming back on the
left side of that line. That’s a big boost, a big shot in the
arm." Williams might be the most athletic of all the Tackles in
this Draft.

I
like the way Williams moves backwards the most of the top five. "One
of the reasons I worked so hard to come back from my injury was to help
the team reach its goal of playing in a bowl game, and I'm proud we were
able to accomplish that," Williams said. "I look forward to
the process and experiences ahead of me. But remain in such appreciation
of how blessed I have been to truly know the 40 Acres. I know,
understand, and believe the true meaning of 'Longhorn For Life.'"
He does a great job keeping his hands up when he slides.

The Reason: Getting
a blindside protector for their young QB can only help his development.
It is all about Goff for this Franchise. If he develops into a star, the
HC and GM will be geniuses. If he can't turn into a Playoff Winner than
they will be fired.

The
Team: Someday
the Carolina management will draft a big time OLT to help keep Cam
healthy, or maybe not.

The
Player: Okafor is a guy who is really moving up the
charts. He has NFL OLT size, arm length, and athleticism. He has
great long arms and balance. He looks like an NFL OLT to me. He grabs a lot of D-ends and just freezes them. But he
played on a lower level, and will not do that in the NFL. Plus, I haven't seen him play against real speed yet. I would have to see him play against speed moving backwards to put him in the 1st.
He can get outside and seal the LB inside on the Toss. Played a wacky spread option, and doesn't kickslide a lot. He has some quicks to get outside and block the OLB in the rush. When he blocks down on short yardage he can run right over the DT. Seals the OLB like he is a kid. Great long arms. Plays with some nasty. Nice burst to second level to devastate an LB. Gets a little high in Kickslide. Tough to see him against speed.
We will see him at the Combine sliding backwards.

The
Reason: I might be in the minority here, but I think he is a starting OLT
in the NFL.

The
Team:
The Belichick tree
continues to grow with Vrabel now running the Titans. "He has a lot of friends walking through the hallways, guys coming up to him and congratulating him, and
'can I send you my resume?'" Robinson said. "But I am proud for him. I think you saw it in his press conference. He is a football coach, he loves football. He and I share the same vision, and we’re just excited to get to work."
I though this was very surprising.
But Vrabel was a guy who most thought would be an HC. "Any time you get recognized by your peers, it is special," Vrabel said.
"When guys like Andy Reid, Marvin Lewis and others congratulate you and lend you support, it means a lot." The Titans could use a weapon to take some heat off of Marietta.

The
Player: Guice is a beast RB. "Derrius and Arden are two ascending players," Orgeron said. "And if they do go out, they're going to make a difference on somebody else's team in the NFL, just like our guys that went out this year."
He struggled with a knee injury in the first half of the season.

He has
really struggled behind a crippling young O-line all season, which I think
has to cost him in the Draft. "I think it’s his physicality,"
ND HC Brain Kelly said. "Great speed, but what really stood out to me was his ability to run over guys. Another line of great backs at LSU. And he’s feature, too. He’s going to get the ball. He’s going to get his carries. A guy you’re going to have to tackle and get down on the ground."
He rarely got a seam to run through. and show his speed that he unleashed consistently
in 2016.

The
Reason: If the Titans think his medicals check out? He could be the guy
that takes their offense to a new level.

The
Team: I have Nose Tackle as their biggest need left over from
last season.

The
Player: Hurst has nice strong hands to pull the OLG down, and almost off his feet, as he tries to pull himself past him. He plays NT and DT. Sheds quick inside when they run to his side. Better run stuffer as a NT. He is the guy teams double inside on passing downs.

If he's not stopping the run, what is he going to do? Nice strong hands to pull the OLG down, and almost off his feet, as he tries to pull himself past him. He plays NT and DT. Sheds quick inside when they run to his side. Better run stuffer as a NT. He is the guy teams double inside on passing downs.
He has a knack for burst past the OC to the weakside.

The
Reason: He kind of reminds me of Grady Jarrett. They need a
Nose tackle, but the idea of putting a Grady Jarrett clone next to Grady
Jarrett will make Pats fans wake up with the sweats at night.

Now they
need to get him a weapon opposite Thomas. "Listen, I think that we’ve been examining the quarterbacks for a number of years now with the idea of, ‘Hey, let’s get some guys in the pipeline that can be developed," Loomis said. "So I think we’re always in the business of
quarterbacks." There isn't a QB for them to take here.

But
Washington has the speed and ability to adjust to the deep ball that makes
QBs look good. "We like the guys that we had this year: Chase and Taysom behind Drew," Loomis said. "But you’re always looking at the guys that are going to be available. You never know who may drop to you or who may be available at a pick where you might value a quarterback. We’ve paid serious attention to quarterbacks for a number of years."
This is too perfect to happen.

They have one good WR, and the rest are average at best. They
need to get Michael Thomas some help on 3rd and long.

The
Player: Washington is a great speed WR. He is also an elite athlete who played tennis,
track, and basketball in high
school. "Then when I went and watched him play a basketball game, he jumped up to get a rebound, and his hand went to the top of the backboard and I was like,
'whoa,'" OK ST HC Gundy said. "Then I knew he was pretty good. After he was here a year, I felt like he was going to be pretty good. Did I know if he was Biletnikoff category? I don’t know if you know that then." I'm
just not sure how much he does in that wacky offense that translates to
the NFL. He is going to have to be completely trained on a route
tree.

He won the Biletnikoff
award as the best WR in college. "He’s known for blowing the top off defenses, running by people, whether that’s a go,
or post, or something short," Mason Rudolph said. "He's very well-rounded as a receiver. You look at any aspect of his
game. And you put the ball in his hands, he’s got a chance." He has
tracks star speed, and basketball star hoops.

The
Reason:They
took a stunning beating in the Playoffs this year. "For the rest of my life I'm going to feel like, 'We were this close to being in three Super
Bowls,'" Loomis said. " And hopefully, it's more than
that." Now they have to recover from that mentally.

They
built up the defense well enough that they probably should have gone to
the Super Bowl this year. "It's so hard to get to a point where, man, you've got a real chance to get to the Super Bowl,"
Loomis said. "And then something happens that you feel like it got taken away from you. And I'm not saying 'wrongly' or anything like that. Just that, hey, it got jerked out from under us. And it's just like you got thrown back into this deep hole and there's no light. But then, a few days go by, and you’re all juiced up and you say, 'Look at all the good things we've got going.' And you get excited again about how we made the playoffs, and you're fired up."
This is a very big offseason for them, where one or two big pieces could
get them over the top.
Best Player Available at a bid need position pick. It
doesn't get any better than that.

The
Team: The Steelers have spent a lot of capital on their defense. Now they have to spend some capital on helping their aging QB. They
have to get a guy who can replace their current OLT.

The
Player:
Rankins is a beast
at OLT, who is so smooth and easy moving backwards in his slide. "If there is a young man that exemplifies what Kent Hull was known for both on the field and off the field, Martinas is all that and
more," MSU co-OC and OL coach Hevesy said about him winning the Ken
Hull Award. "Since the day he arrived in Starkville, he has developed into an outstanding player and a better teammate. Martinas has as bright of a future as anyone I have been around whether it be at the next level on the field or in the business world."
If character matters than he will succeed.

He can shove down on the
DT, and still has the quicks and agility to burst back and block the DE. Incredible block against Auburn to start the game. Keeps his hands high and tight when moving backwards against speed.
He really looks the part moving backwards. He has some twitch to him
moving backwards sometimes. Great lateral burst outside to stuff the speed
blitzer.

The
Reason:Roethlisberger
is not long for the League. They need to load up the offense to make it as
easy as on him as they can over the next couple of years.

The
Team:
They really need help in the interior O-line, but there will be guys,
(maybe Price) in the 2nd. But when a top talent at CB falls to you, because
of some young and dumb mistakes, it makes it an easy pick.

The
Team: They don't have a lot of needs, but picking
up a DL who can play every position on the D-line is never dumb.

The
Player:Brown
is the biggest OLT to come out in a while. He is huge, and has some of
the longest arms in the Draft. "I'm just grinding," Brown
said. "Just using this pressure and this hype to better my game and better my
grind. It just helps motivate me. Understanding that wherever you all have me ranked or whatever, I've got to live up to those expectations. There's always room for
improvement." He has nice quick feet, and plays with some nasty. He
doesn't care about anything except protecting his QB.

The
Reason:
Spielman loves the best athlete available
philosophy. Vea is the best player on the Board by far. He is a freak of
a player who is hard to pigeon hole into a position.

The Team:This
is a tough one, but if anyone is being honest than you have to say that if
Butler played in the 2nd Half the Pats win the Super Bowl. That is fact.
The Pats pass defense fell apart in that game, especially on 3rd down. BB
inexplicably took out his best CB in the 1st half. Then after the teams
passed for 500 yards in the 1st Half, he inexplicably left his best DB out of the game and
gave it to the Eagles.

Now this
isn't my opinion. This is his. Butler played more defensive snaps than any
other CB in the other two Playoff games. So he was by definition the best
Corner on the team according to the team, I don't give a shit what irreconcilable differences he
and BB had. Benching him in spite was the end of the Super Bowl for the
Pats.

I don't care
what he did or didn't do. That was the sixth, and maybe
the last Super Bowl for a very long time. To lose that game over a
grudge, and a random act of stupidity is troubling. We are used to the
other teams coughing up the victory, not the Pats It is mind-numbingly odd
to see BB do that. It is wrong. It is unbelievable. It's
like having a President who is too stupid to read the President's Daily Brief to keep
America safe.

BB made the
two worst decisions of his career this year. And trading Jimmy-G for a 2nd
and a backup QB was the first. Up is down, left is right, and the Pats mad
scientist of football let a grudge get in the way of winning a Super Bowl. But I suppose that's what
happens when you elect a retarded racist traitor for President, everything
just turns upside down That is what we Pats Fans and We The People are
trying to overcome.

The
Pats spent the season recovering from the loss of Logan Ryan. I also
think that Butler is gone. If that happens they have to grab a CB early in
this Draft. They have some good young Corners coming up. But they have limitations
that have prevented them from being starters outside.

Cyrus Jones
has not converted as quickly as I expected. "[Cyrus is a] smart kid, athletic, obviously very good hands, he's got good quickness, good ball skills, led the nation in punt
returns," BB said. "I think you can see his return skills out there. So, he turns the ball over defensively if he can get his hands on it. He can make plays on the ball. But he's fast, he's quick, he's
smart. He obviously was well coached, played in a great system at Alabama. Nick
did a great job with him, like he does with all of his defense backs down there. He's fundamentally a good technique player."
He was lost in IR limbo this season.

Jonathan Jones,
while tough as nails, does have some size issues. "He's a tough kid,"
BB said. "We saw that at Auburn. He tackled well. I'd say he plays big for his size, he's not afraid, he's a tough, competitive kid that's willing to support in the running game and in the kicking game, very competitive on the ball. Again, his speed and overall awareness puts him in position to have the opportunity to play some balls. That's half the battle right there, being in position to do it. He's been very competitive on the ball and shown good speed, good toughness, as he did in college."
So getting another young Corner could be in the cards in this Draft.

The
Reason:If
you don't want him we'll take. I know this has nothing to do with nothing,
but I keep seeing Landry ending up in the 2nd in Mock Drafts. That is inexplicable to
me? It's like having a President who is a Russian asset? It just wasn't
possible until now. That is one of the reasons I try not to read mock
drafts. Though there is nothing I would rather read than a good Mock.

But they are
more scattered opinions than anything based in fact. I mean, we all try to
read the tea leaves and project talents, needs, and Draft history to
figure out this impossible four dimensional puzzle. And since the 4th dimension
is time, even if the Draft were today and every single pick I made was
correct? Come April every one could still be wrong.

The Pats
needs are few and far between, except maybe youth. One problem is that OLT
seems like a big need. But we don't really know if Solder is going to
retire. Plus, the Pats drafted Antonio Garcia to play OLT if Solder left.
He has been developing behind the scenes all season. So they might see him
as a replacement, or they might not. Garcia is not 6-6 or over, like BB
like to have at OLT.

The Pats are
also desperate for a speed rusher. But they did also drafted Derek Rivers
last year. He was awarded one of the six best parking spots that are given
to the six Pats players that work the hardest in the off season, then blew
out his knee. He looked spectacular in the short time we saw him on the
field. He was still a little lost in the grass, but his speed, athleticism,
and aggressiveness was extremely impressive. Plus, the Super Bowl shenanigans
seemed to open a giant hole at Corner.

However, you
cannot have too many edge rushers who can win quicker than the QB can
throw. Rivers looked to me like one of those guys in very limited action.
He was very raw, but very explosive. He has had a year in the system, and
he will not be a raw rookie come training camp. But while Rivers flashed
some elite edgerusher traits in preseason last year, Landry showed them
for three years at BC. If he's still on the Board in April, he will be a
Patriot (of course, everything could be changed by then).

Alexander is a tough kid, who
has the speed. "I’d say there’s no such thing as too much speed
[at corner]," Belichick said. "It doesn’t exist. You can’t coach that, either."
The Pats will have to draft a CB this year.

I'm
not sure the need is dire, but BB tends to go through Corners like toilet
paper, because it is one of the most difficult positions to play in
sports. "There are great skill players in this league, great quarterbacks, great receivers,
with a lot of receiving skill, different types of skills," BB said.
"There are times when defensive players, you have great coverage on a receiver, the defender is doing everything that you taught him to do, everything that he really can do, and sometimes the opponent, quarterback or receiver makes a great play. The ball is placed perfectly or
(the WR) makes a great catch. There’s not much more that you could have done. It’s just great execution on their part.
That’s professional football." If
there is one in the 1st he loves, they will take him.

Second
Choice: Mike Hughes CB

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The
Team:
The Eagles need an OLT to protect their Franchise QB. But it looks
like they figured that out one week too late.

The Player: Crosby is a moose. "He has accepted a role as a leader on this football team. He’s played unbelievably
well," Oregon HC Cristobal said. 'His personality and everything is infectious. He’s fun to be around. As great of a player as he is, he’s an even better human being."
I am not enamored with the way he moves backward.

But he doesn't
give up the corner easily. "I’ll say it without reservation, the best lineman in the
country," Cristobal said. "I say that, and I have the film to prove it as well. How valuable is he? As a player and a person, you can’t describe it,
truly a difference maker in every sense of the word." He is very
tough to get past to hit the QB. Plus, he is a monster in the run
game.

The
Reason: Now that their young Franchise is recovering from an ACL,
they will pick up a guy who can protect his back.